Samurai Element Contest/evolution!

[Satya]

I am a 32 waist too, didnt expect that 29 is still wearable, am afraid of further shrinkage, anyway, great fit, lets bring it on!

[shubharamani]

Doesn't hip flare become a non issue once jeans settle and are broken in? Logically, it would seem that hip flare is a function of new, stiff jeans only.

[shinobi2000]

whoa whoa!! what's going on here?? These are the s5000 cut and all you people (laxlife, bokkepoot) got them to look slim on you? I sized down one and all I got was a tight thigh fit. How did y'all do that???

bokkepoot, are you saying that you fit a size 29 onto your 32 waist?

[Bokkepoot]

Yes they measure 84 cm in the waist..

received 2 hot soaks but worn first by someone with a bigger waist for a day or 2

[Satya]

shinobi2000

seems like you got a massive muscular thigh

[Gilangaditya]

fire element

8 month wash ??

detail

[setterman]

fire element

8 month wash ??

Easily my favorite pair of Samurai ever. Getting nice wear and fading, without the stark white of other models. Wanna rep you every time I see them.

[Satya]

the water element on Tangkuban Perahu crater

[Martybear]

Just started looking at Samurais because Im in the market for a new pair of jeans, and I can say Im jealous these jeans are not in my size anymore, I hate these one off jeans they do .

[chantheman]

just wait. there will be something else to come along soon im sure

[laxlife1234]

Yeah, Samurai always produces something crazy, if you miss out on one thing there will always be something else... or you could always post up a thread in the supermarket and try and get a pair of Fires or skys

[Martybear]

Yeah im thinking about it, wish they would remake the black knights, id buy more than one pair.

[laxlife1234]

I think they are - it's called black shadow?

Went upstate NY today. Was pretty fun but - I didn't feel too great.. Not going to put too much words with my post this time since I should really be studying, and need to get back to school work.

After 2 hours in the car this is where we finally stopped. Take not of that mountain. Anyways, we stopped to get food (didn't feel like bringing my camera).

But continued..

..we went hiking (washburn trail).

Here is all the images from on the way up.

We just finished walking up part of the 'easy' part of the mountain. Now comes the hard part. It was like a 65 degree vertical slope.

[laxlife1234]

...I thought I took more pictures to show what it was like. Anyways here's me, out of shape, feeling like shit, sweaty and tired. Me.

This is how high up we were in addition to the fact that that is a flat part up on a mountain. Meaning the easy trail led to down there, and the hard trail led to where I am taking the photo. If that makes sense. It was probably about a 200 ft drop off as well.

Even the dogs were tired.

We continued going up, and this is what it looked like - it eventually became much steeper.

Even higher up.

And to give reference

Managed to get a sweet pano

[laxlife1234]

Then we started our descent.

Made it to the car then made another trip somewhere else...

We arrived here.

Some famers market I guess.

Then we went here:

[laxlife1234]

Apple picking!

someone said I look like a corpse in this picture, but truly, I'm not.

Anyways on the way back..

Saw a sweet sunset and I managed to get another pano as well. If you really care, yes it does kind of go upwards on the left, but I have no clue how to fix that. It is also a bit blurry, and yatta yatta..

[Martybear]

Yeah, the Black Shadows are going to be very similar, just 2oz lighter, and Gordon said that the Black Knights were deadstock, I actually have no idea what that means. I'll be picking them up regardless.

Great set of pictures though, love the way those jeans fit you

[laxlife1234]

The BKs are definitely DS (unless one pops up in the supermarket). But I am curious as to seeing the black shadows as well. I don't think I will be picking them up though - trying to spend more money on camera equipment than jeans.

thank you for the compliment though man! I love the way they fit as well! Although... they will never work with my vans , only my boots.

[tvshooter]

lax- it looks like u spend quality time with the fam, which is really cool for a kid your age. keep your nose outta trouble. something i didn't do when i was your age.

[bennnnny]

hey laxlife, what lens do you use for your pictures?

specifically that apple one that looks like twilight hah

[laxlife1234]

lax- it looks like u spend quality time with the fam, which is really cool for a kid your age. keep your nose outta trouble. something i didn't do when i was your age.

Well... I spend time - maybe not quality though haha! I just tag along to take pictures otherwise I would be at home with nothing to do or with friends and being bored as shit. I try to stay out of trouble - I tend to overthink situations a lot so I worry mostly about the consequences (for better or for worse).

hey laxlife, what lens do you use for your pictures?

specifically that apple one that looks like twilight hah

Haha! Supposedly you're not the only one that thinks that, ironically I didn't even think of twilight until someone pointed it out.

Well, the pictures taken at the orchard were not with my good lens. It was just the kit one - Canon 18-55 f/3.5-5.6IS II. The lens is very good, but not the best however, I did a lot of editing to it to look like that. Well a decent amount I took 3 exposures and tonemapped it - twice.

Otherwise all the other pictures were taken with the 50mm 1.2L. I just wish I had a wider lens for those shots, the 50 is tight on a crop body.

[Bokkepoot]

21 days of wear

But it was an easy fix

[laxlife1234]

Got my elements on for the weekend!

Spyder | Elements | Red Wing

[laxlife1234]

Just an update... wear time is (?).

Wish the cut was slimmer, but I love these to death. I am going to guess the wear time is ~3-4 weeks (or a month). The BEST way to represent the color is to say they are purple. They are brown/indigo weft/warp which in turn makes them purpilish. At a distance they somewhat look like the first picture, but up close they look exactly like they do in the third picture.

[shinobi2000]

lax i dunno how tall you are but i think the slimness is perfect as is. I think any slimmer and it will make you look shorter than you really are. Cool hoodie with the spider.

[laxlife1234]

5'6", but thanks shinobi! I mean if I am to get them tapered it is going to be very slight, I still want the loose cut, but enough to reduce the hip flare and make them look like the 29's. The hoodie is actually a rain coat though, bit small on me now should have went with a M

[Oldswag]

lax, the fit looks good.

I hope that as you wear your samurais, they'll resemble the flathead tour jeans you had on for awhile.

[laxlife1234]

Thanks man! I seriously hope someone takes the FH WT jeans off my hands..

[Bokkepoot]

Nice progress lax..Mine are also very fast

Edwin is retired & Samurai has 21 days

[shinobi2000]

Just reread the beginning of this thread and I realized something -- laxlife, bokke...did you guys ever get those last two Elements into the contest?